Sole abuse survivor on a Vatican sex-abuse panel quits
The only abuse survivor on Pope Francis’ commission to address the clergy sexual abuse crisis resigned Wednesday, citing a “shameful” lack of cooperation from some within the Vatican bureaucracy.
The departure of Marie Collins puts pressure on Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley — the archbishop of Boston and a new member of a Vatican department handling the abuse crisis — to marshal support for the commission inside the church’s fractious power structure.
Collins’s resignation highlights what many see as a stubborn resistance to fully address the clergy abuse crisis four years into Francis’ papacy and more than 15 years after it exploded in Boston.
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